Just Warms My Heart
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It was very cute when our 7-year-old son, who is learning Lech Lecha (with
Rashi!) with his rebbe, said: "I would like to meet a ger. A ger is a person
who...
2 hours ago
Just a typical Jewish mom... with a superhero complex.
Veterans of Foreign Wars National Honor Guard wait for Veterans Day ceremony to begin earlier today at Arlington National cemetery in Virginia.
My friend Bonnie Samotin Zev has written a beautiful article for the Jewish Journal entitled Reflections on Friends Who Lived to Tell. Bonnie worked at the Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles for nearly ten years, and met hundreds of Holocaust survivors who allowed the organization to tape their testimonies for future generations. She tells us about a few of those treasured friends, and pays tribute to a special woman named Silvia Grohs-Martin, a former actress, singer, and dancer who had joined the Dutch Resistance, survived the concentration camps, and wrote a memoir about her experiences.
Thank you so much to Prof K at Conversations in Klal for nominating me for a Kreative Blogger award! It means a lot to me coming from her. I am a bit in awe of how prolific she is. She presents well reasoned, well written, and thoughtful analysis about the issues facing our communities- and she does this every day, despite what sounds like a heavy teaching load and homemaking responsibilities. Also, she's a professor, which is very cool and slightly intimidating. | Powered by web design software. |